Huntsville gazette., 1887-05-28
II MAY BE.

President Crews Opposition to General
BouIanger's Retention In the Ministry
Turning the French Peoples Attention
to the Latter as an Available Candidate
for the Succession.
PARIS, May "a The Foreign Office on
cials are loud and even violent in their
reprobation OF General LeFIos' revelations
of state secrets through the medium OF
his article published in Figaro, but their
indignation is equaled in intensity by the
surprise of the public at learning now
near to another German invasion France
was. brought within five years after the
capitulation at Sedan. The disclosures
will perhaps startle the German public as
well, but their effect will not be as great
in Germany as in France, where the assev-
erations Of Germany that NOS designs
upon France are contemplated, are
taken cum grdno sails, and whose
people it will be difficult
to convince that Germany is not now med
itating a similar movement to the one
prevented by the Intervention OF Russia
in 1875.
The failure of NM De Freycinet and
Rouvier to construct cabinet to accord
with the expressed wishes of President
Grevy that General Boulanger be not in
cluded in the ministry, while not unex-
pected, has raised the tide Of public
clamor for termination Of the crisis to
a point very near to the danger line. The
prolongation of the crisis has had very
depressing effect upon business. and
many persons who were at first inclined
to support M. Grevy in his opposition to
the retention of Boulanger, now desire
his reappointment, seeing in 1T the most
speedy way of putting an end to the pres
ent situation Of uncertainty. President
Grevy has intimated that he would rather
retire from office than to retain the
presidency with ministry in which
General Boulanger would be the chief
figure, and this intim alton was probably
born of the declarations Of many of the
latter's partisans, rapidly increasing in
number and persistence of purpose, that
a government must be formed without
unnecessary delay, even if President be
be included among the new officials. The
refusal of President Grevy TO
request M. Clemenceau to form
ministry because of his friendship
for BouIanger, has still further en-
bittered the Generals adherents
against Grevy, and many whc would at
the outset have been satisfied with Bou-
langer's retention in the War Office and
who later suggested that he be called up
on to form ministry, are now outspok-
en- in their determination to elect him
president should Grevy resign. That he
could lie elected there is no doubt, and
the vate cast for him by the Seine
constituency, in spite OF the
facts that his candidature was illegal;
that he could not have taken his seat had
he received all of the votes polled, and
that the district is overwhelmingly Social
istic, has suggested his elevation to the
presidency to thousands who never before
entertained the idea. .
This state Of affairs puts M. Grevy in a
dilemma. He is by this time pretty we'll
satisfied that there is no statesman IN
France sufficiently unmindful of his polit-
ical future as to ignore Boulanger; ne
threatens to resign if Boulanger
is retained, and if he carries
out his threat, there is a reasonable prob
ability that he will see in his success sor
the man he tried to humiliate and force
into retirement from political of1co